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of course the solar system isnt two bodies its a bunch of bodies so its all kinda ???
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:egghead astronomers make it overly complicated so they can get their grubby little hands on more grant money. keep it simple, stupids!
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Feb 23, 2021 23:07
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fondue posted:It's just a conspiracy set up by big-planet to oppress little planets but unironically
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Feb 24, 2021 00:29
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research money flows to the "cool" planets "cool" is defined as "visible"
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Feb 24, 2021 00:29
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What if Pluto is the only planet, and all the other bodies are the ones that need to be reclassified?
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Feb 24, 2021 00:45
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I met Clyde Tombaugh (discoverer of Pluto) a few times as a kid, and even got to look through his backyard telescope once, because I grew up in the Las Cruces, NM, neighborhood he lived in. He founded the Astronomy Department at NMSU and was generous with his time in fostering enthusiasm for astronomy in the community. He discovered Pluto by using a blink comparator to view photographic plates of observations he made at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. I've tried this and even if you know for sure there is a visible planet in the plates it's hard. Tombaugh made the discovery in Feb. 18 1930, which means we just passed the 91st anniversary of human awareness of Pluto. A portion of his ashes were attached to the New Horizons Spacecraft, and his remains are the first to travel into deep space and the first that will leave the solar system forever to travel among the stars.  Interned herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto and the solar system's ‘third zone,' Adelle and Muron's boy, Patricia's husband, Annette and Alden's father, astronomer, teacher, punster, and friend: Clyde W. Tombaugh (1906-1997) He inscribed a copy of his biography to me in 1995.   Pluto should be a considered a planet, so should Ceres, and all the other things big enough to roundify themselves.
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Feb 24, 2021 02:25
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Pluto is a distinctly different object than any of the other things we have labeled as a planet and you'd think Pluto defenders would be more happy with that. The problem really is that "planet" is a dumb classification for babies and there is a much more interesting distinction between near-sun rock pebbles, midway gas giants, outer ice giants and far-outer ice pebbles.
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Feb 24, 2021 06:43
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It doesn't matter how the IAU define Pluto, because it's still a giant icy rock in space. They can't take that away from it. Their definition is pretty bad, though, and they don't seem to care about acknowledging any more dwarf planets. And why have two mutually exclusive categories called dwarf planets and planets? That's just needlessly confusing. At least call the planets major planets or classical planets or orbit-loners or something. Beethovens Fist Symphony posted:word. if you're in hydrostatic equilibrium, you're a dang planet
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Feb 24, 2021 08:45
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Beethovens Fist Symphony posted:word. if you're in hydrostatic equilibrium, you're a dang planet ur mom: planet
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Feb 24, 2021 09:26
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my balls: planets
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Feb 24, 2021 12:08
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I love you Pluto and I'll never stop believing in u 
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Feb 25, 2021 08:39
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Pluto, is not a puto
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Feb 25, 2021 23:14
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I’m glad Pluto’s not a planet because I like Pluto and planets are trash.
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Feb 26, 2021 00:01
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We'd have reached Pluto way earlier if NASA bigwigs didn't have such a hardon for Titan; Voyager 1 could have gone on course to Pluto after Saturn, but nooooooooo let's go look at Titan, and the flyby sent the probe way out of the plane of the ecliptic, making it useless as anything but a solar wind/heliopause probe after. We could have been at Pluto in the late 90s and saved Alan Stern all those years of waiting for New Horizons is what I'm saying
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Mar 6, 2021 20:38
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titan is 1000x cooler than loving pluto
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Mar 13, 2021 02:56
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Binary Badger posted:We'd have reached Pluto way earlier if NASA bigwigs didn't have such a hardon for Titan; Voyager 1 could have gone on course to Pluto after Saturn, but nooooooooo let's go look at Titan, and the flyby sent the probe way out of the plane of the ecliptic, making it useless as anything but a solar wind/heliopause probe after. Counter point, 2010 technology is a lot cooler than than 2070's technology. It was worth the wait.
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Mar 13, 2021 03:21
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Bloody posted:titan is 1000x cooler than loving pluto You're in the wrong thread friend 
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Mar 13, 2021 03:22
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Dalael posted:You're in the wrong thread friend fight me
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Mar 13, 2021 03:39
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Dalael posted:You're in the wrong thread friend I actually meant to make a titan thread thanks for the reminder
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Mar 13, 2021 17:48
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When i was young and learned about the solar system, Pluto was a planet. Nobody at the time told m one of its moon is like half its size. In fact, nobody told me about its moon and that's a flaw in the education system. Charon seems also cool. Why does nobody ever talk about Charon? Ya'll biased or something?
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Mar 13, 2021 18:02
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The Pluto-Charon system is super cool. Charon and Pluto orbit the sun like two skaters holding each other by the arms.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Jm5POCAj8 Just look at this bitchin' music video that Brian May of Queen and also Respected Astronomer made, especially at around 1:58 where they show how Pluto and Charon orbit the sun.. Together they look like a tumbling dumbell spinning in space, tell me that isn't cool with a straight face.
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Mar 14, 2021 20:15
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Pluto! I believe in you.
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Mar 14, 2021 21:03
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That's part of how fake of a planet is. Can't even keep its barycenter inside itself
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Mar 15, 2021 02:27
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pluto deserves so much more
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Mar 15, 2021 09:42
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It has five moons, atmosphere and a bunch of nice photos made by photographer from another planet, what more it can deserve
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Mar 15, 2021 10:15
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commando in tophat posted:It has five moons, atmosphere and a bunch of nice photos made by photographer from another planet, what more it can deserve our love and affection
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Mar 15, 2021 13:49
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Enfys posted:our love and affection Everybody already loves this dwarf planet
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Mar 15, 2021 13:59
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commando in tophat posted:Everybody already loves this dwarf planet i have it on great authority that pluto is actually very tall
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Mar 16, 2021 03:22
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commando in tophat posted:Everybody already loves this dwarf planet it already has a giant heart tattooed on it already, fer chrissake 
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Mar 17, 2021 15:54
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We all better appreciate Pluto before it decides to leave us and seek out a better solar system like this fella: https://news.agu.org/press-release/interstellar-object-oumuamua-is-likely-a-piece-of-a-pluto-like-planet
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Mar 17, 2021 16:13
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Enfys posted:We all better appreciate Pluto before it decides to leave us and seek out a better solar system like this fella: pluto should just gently caress off and leave already
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Mar 17, 2021 16:50
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Pluto, the best planet
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Mar 18, 2021 06:01
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Pluto more like poo-to
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Mar 18, 2021 06:24
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Eat My Ghastly rear end posted:pluto should just gently caress off and leave already looks like Sedna tried to but like a codependent it keeps coming back
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Mar 18, 2021 14:36
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Pluto is cool. Earth & Mars are overrated. We should all move to Pluto.
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Mar 18, 2021 16:00
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Dalael posted:Pluto is cool. Earth & Mars are overrated. We should all move to Pluto. I'm already there
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Mar 19, 2021 01:14
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Dalael posted:Pluto is cool. Earth & Mars are overrated. We should all move to Pluto. You first
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Mar 19, 2021 01:55
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Bloody posted:You first
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Mar 19, 2021 03:11
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Bloody posted:You first
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New Horizons is the neatest space probe I did not do anything for because I worked across the street in a different department of the company
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